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Trev got back on ‘track’ after Olympic dreams shattered Posted: 5:21 pm January 25, 2021
By Chris Caldwell
The then 18-year-old won the Scottish under-20, Irish under-20, Irish Senior and British under-20 indoor 60 metre hurdles titles – one per weekend – during that winter month 24 years ago.
The talented sprinter ended the indoor season that year ranked third in the world at under-20 level and eighth overall in the UK with a time of eight seconds dead over the 60m hurdles, leaving him looking like a certainty for a place at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Unfortunatey for the Strabane man, injury and illness would strike over the next seven years as his dreams of representing Ireland at the biggest sporting spectacle on the planet in Australia and then again in Athens in 2004 were left in tatters.